Pop and Rock Chart Archive
and Music Encyclopedia

Weekly Pop Top 20 for August 11, 1979

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2 1   My Sharona 2  
  The Knack
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1 2   Good Times 1  
  Chic
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3 3   The Main Event/Fight 2  
  Barbra Streisand
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6 4   You Can't Change That  
  Raydio
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4 5   When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman 1  
  Dr. Hook
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9 6   Mama Can't Buy You Love 4  
  Elton John
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5 7   Gold 1  
  John Stewart
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15 8   After The Love Has Gone 1  
  Earth, Wind & Fire
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13 9   Sad Eyes 1  
  Robert John
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14 10   Lead Me On 3  
  Maxine Nightingale
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8 11   One Way Or Another 10 8  
  Blondie
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12 12   Is She Really Going Out With Him? 2  
  Joe Jackson
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19 13   Don't Bring Me Down 1 2  
  Electric Light Orchestra
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18 14   The Devil Went Down To Georgia 1 2  
  The Charlie Daniels Band
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16 15   Suspicions 10  
  Eddie Rabbitt
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- 16   I'll Never Love This Way Again 1  
  Dionne Warwick
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20 17   Goodbye Stranger 1 7  
  Supertramp
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17 18   Let's Go 3 12  
  The Cars
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10 19   Bad Girls 1  
  Donna Summer
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- 20   Heaven Must Have Sent You 5  
  Bonnie Pointer
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My Sharona tops the entire chart this week for The Knack. Good Times by Chic is at number two on the chart. The Main Event/Fight by Barbra Streisand is at number three on the chart.


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